Bird Records

The Club now maintains a daily sightings list of birds reported around the area. You can find this by clicking on the red 'SIGHTINGS' icon

All birders are encouraged to send in any sightings as quickly as possible in order to keep our Daily Sightings list up to date.

Any birds that you see and which you regard as noteworthy. We keep all contributions and these are passed on to the relevant Recorders to

All records that you send in are logged onto our master bird-file for our monthly Bird News and later used for the county Report.

The following species are locally or nationally rare species in Avon and we require supporting descriptions to be provided in order for records to be accepted. A distinctive species such as a male Hen Harrier may require only a few lines but a more problematical species such as a Short-toed Lark may require a much more detailed description to be provided. Field Sketches and photographs are of course, particularly welcome. It will greatly assist the county Recorder and his team if descriptions are written out using the standard 'Rare Bird Form' and electronic copies of these are preferred if at all possible. Sending in descriptions promptly and without the need for chasing or reminding is also much appreciated. This simple act can save the the Recorder a tremendous amount of time in preparing the county Report. Electronic photographs should saved as jpeg files. Copyright of photographs remain with the photographer.
Whooper Swan	Red-footed Falcon	Red-throated Pipit
Bean Goose	Merlin (inland only)	Waxwing
Pink-footed Goose	Spotted Crake	Bluethroat
American Wigeon	Corncrake	Cetti's Warbler (sight records of non-singing birds away from established breeding area)
Green-winged Teal	Crane	Aquatic Warbler
Red-crested Pochard (except males in breeding plumage)	Stone Curlew	Marsh Warbler
Ring-necked Duck	Kentish Plover	Icterine Warbler
Ferruginous Duck	Dotterel	Melodious Warbler
Common Eider (inland only)	American Golden Plover	Barred Warbler
Long-tailed Duck	Temminck's Stint	Dartford Warbler (away from breeding stronghold)
Surf Scoter	White-rumped Sandpiper	Subalpine Warbler
Velvet Scoter	Purple Sandpiper (inland only)	Greenish Warbler
Red-breasted Merganser (except males in breeding plumage)	Pectoral Sandpiper	Pallas's Leaf Warbler
White-headed Duck (category D)	Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Yellow-browed Warbler
Quail (sight records of non-singing birds away from established breeding area)	Red-necked Phalarope	Radde's Warbler
Red-throated Diver	Grey Phalarope	Dusky Warbler
Black-throated Diver	Pomarine Skua	Wood Warbler (autumn only)
Great Northern Diver	Arctic Skua (inland only)	Red-breasted Flycatcher
White-billed Diver	Long-tailed Skua	Bearded Tit
Red-necked Grebe	Great Skua (inland only)	Willow Tit
Slavonian Grebe	Sabine's Gull	Golden Oriole
Black-necked Grebe (away from 3 main reservoirs)	Ring-billed Gull	Red-backed Shrike
Fulmar (inland only)	Caspian Gull	Great Grey Shrike
Cory's Shearwater	Iceland/Kumlien's Gull	Woodchat Shrike
Great Shearwater	Glaucous Gull	Chough
Sooty Shearwater	White-winged Black Tern	Hooded Crow
Manx Shearwater (inland only)	Roseate Tern	Rosy Starling
Balearic Shearwater	Guillemot (inland only)	Serin
Wilson's Storm-petrel	Razorbill	Twite
Storm-petrel (inland only)	Black Guillemot	Common Redpoll
Leach's Storm-petrel	Little Auk	Arctic Redpoll
Gannet (inland only)	Puffin	Parrot Crossbill
Shag	Turtle Dove	Common Rosefinch
Black-crowned Night Heron	Long-eared Owl	Hawfinch
Cattle Egret	Nightjar (sight records of non-singing birds away from established breeding area)	Lapland Bunting
Great White Egret	Alpine Swift	Cirl Bunting
Purple Heron	Bee-eater	Ortolan Bunting
White Stork	Hoopoe	Rustic Bunting
Spoonbill	Wryneck	Little Bunting
Honey-buzzard	Shot-toed Lark	Corn Bunting (away from breeding stronghold)
Black Kite	Woodlark
Hen Harrier	Horned Lark (Shorelark)
Montagu's Harrier	Red-rumped Swallow
Goshawk	Richard's Pipit
Rough-legged Buzzard	Tawny Pipit